| UN Afghan Failure from
Weird Calls to Gagnon Sent to
Inner City Press by Whistleblowers
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
UN GATE,
Nov 14 – How corrupt
is today's UN under Antonio
Guterres? Today's example is
his mission in Afghanistan,
about which his spokespeople
Stephane Dujarric and Melissa
Fleming refuse all Press
questions. Inner City Press
has asked them, and others,
about a sex abuse case against
the UN there. Now this, from a
UN whistleblower sent to Inner
City Press:
Dear Matthew Russell Lee,
DPA USG Rosemary Di Carlo has just appointed
another useless Deputy Special
Representative (Political) in UN mission
Afghanistan. Marcus Potzl, the former
Ambassador,
was forced upon her by Germany but who
has now left to become German Ambassador in
Iran.
Pernille Kardel, a Danish diplomat with a good
reputation, was appointed in 2016 but soon
clashed with senior staff and then SRSG
Yamamoto of Japan and was moved to Lebanon,
where she clashed with everyone and had to be
removed.
Then Ingrid Hayden was over-promoted from HQ
to be Deputy, but she could not cope and
had a breakdown, ringing up people in
the middle of the night with weird
accusations. Even then it took Di Carlo
months to remove her as she didn’t want her
back in DPA to her old D1 job. Hayden took
months of sick leave but then got her old D1
job back.
Then Di Carlo appointed another Danish woman,
Mette Knudsen who was so incompetent she only
lasted just over a year. Now Di Carlo has
appointed Georgette Gagnon a human rights
lawyer who was desperate for the job as she
needs a political post to get an SRSG rank, to
which she thinks she is entitled. She has no
political experience and as Deputy in Libya
showed she couldn’t even manage the agencies
in the country team. UN staff in Kabul just
hope that this woman will also be moved on
quickly, now she has gotten political
experience, and they can get a decent
deputy. But with Di Carlo’s record or
bad appointments that don’t seem likely.
We'll have
more on all this. No answer from UN
Spox Dujarric on this, or nomination of Elise Stefanik. Keep
the info coming.
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